Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1334 tax assessments and the 1377 poll-tax returns show which communities existed at those dates ( the latter also showing how few had disappeared between them ) , and make it clear that a high proportion of those which eventually disappeared were markedly below the average size ( 58 , pp.162–3 , 207 ) . |
| 2 | Nurse-maids with their children were a common sight but as yet there were a few hotels and most visitors took ‘ rooms ’ with the local inhabitants who cooked the food which their guests bought at local shops . |
| 3 | It would be naive to expect every fragment surveyed to fall neatly into a pattern in which terraces occurred at certain heights and were completely absent from the other heights . |
| 4 | She was too young , too soft and new , to come to terms with these wild beings whose minds veered at crazy angles from the short , straight , smooth lines of her own experience . |
| 5 | He passed flocks of sheep and herds of cattle , and his mount nickered at other horses running free upon the common pastures . |